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MS Excel Tip - Excel 2016 cheat sheet

Are you getting the most from Microsoft Excel 2016? Get to know the key new features.

You can disable third party Safari extensions on the Mac without completely uninstalling them. This can be helpful for troubleshooting purposes, various testing scenarios, and many other situations, whether you're a developer, trying to determine if and which particular extension is causing an issue with Safari, or even maybe just giving a trial run to a similar extension.

Windows 10 automatically compresses your wallpaper images and reduces it to 85% of the original image quality, before setting it as your desktop background. This helps in saving valuable disk space and improves performance to a certain extent but compromises on the image quality. While the process is immensely useful for PCs with moderate specifications, if your system has plenty of RAM, you can disable the wallpaper compression in Windows 10. Here's how to go about it.

HandBrake is an often-used free tool for editing and converting video files on macOS machines, but anyone who downloaded it last week may have unwittingly infected their Macs with malware. Online criminals replaced the HandBrake installer with the Proton remote-access Trojan (RAT), which gains complete control of your system and can also steal passwords stored on your Mac.

General Tip Tip - How to choose the best Surge Protector for your computer and other devices

Most everyone has lost at least one appliance or electronic device due to a power surge or lightning strike at some point, but a quality surge protector can help protect your valuable equipment from damage during the next one (and believe me, there WILL be a next one).

While plenty of wi-fi networks use obvious passwords that aren't complex, if you've ever joined a wi-fi network with a wildly complex wireless router password you know it's easy to fumble and erroneously enter a character or two. Of course while you're typing the password it appears as little bullet points that are indecipherable, this is a security feature designed to obfuscate a password from preying eyes.

This secret app is called "File Explorer" which has been developed to provide a substitute modern app for default Windows Explorer (This PC) program. Currently File Explorer app is under development and testing phase and the functionality is very limited and basic. Its a touch oriented app which seems like a direct port of File Explorer app present in Windows 10 Mobile.

Be aware that while these Linux replacements will do most everything that their Windows counterparts do, there will usually be a learning curve involved when you make the switch, and in some cases that learning curve can be fairly steep.

GateKeeper, MRT (Malware Removal Tool), and XProtect are all built-in features of Mac OS designed to prevent malware threats and other nefarious software from being installed or used on a Mac. These security features exist in the background and are updated with regular system software updates to Mac OS, but Apple will also push quiet updates to xprotect or MRT to add new definitions and block newfound threats.